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Rehabilitation and Exercise Training After Hospitalization (REHAB-HF)

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Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Heart Failure

Treatments

Behavioral: Usual care
Behavioral: Rehabilitation intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01508650
IRB00016973

Details and patient eligibility

About

Rehabilitation and Exercise Training after Hospitalization: Assessing Benefit in Acute Heart Failure (REHAB-HF) pilot is a multi-site, randomized clinical pilot study designed to establish the feasibility of conducting a larger clinical trial to address the hypothesis that, in addition to standard care, a novel, progressive, multi-domain 3-month rehabilitation intervention administered to elderly patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) will improve key clinical outcomes, including the rate of rehospitalization and death, physical function, and quality of life.

Full description

Three centers,Wake Forest Baptist Health along with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital-Co-Investigator Dr. David Whellan, and Duke Medical Center- Co-Investigator Dr. Christopher O'Connor, will recruit a total of 60 consenting patients ≥ 60 years old hospitalized with ADHF. Once identified and screened, the participants will be randomized in a 1:1 fashion to receive a 3 month novel rehabilitation and exercise training intervention or usual care. This multi-domain intervention will include endurance, mobility, strength, and balance training and be tailored based on participant performance in each of these domains. It will begin during the hospitalization and continue three times per week in an outpatient facility.

Enrollment

27 patients

Sex

All

Ages

60+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 60 years old
  • Hospitalized for the management of ADHF or diagnosed with ADHF after being hospitalized for another reason. ADHF will be defined as a combination of symptoms, signs, and HF-specific medical treatments.

Exclusion criteria

  • Planned discharge other than to home or a facility where the participant will live independently.
  • Acute myocardial infarction
  • Already participating in cardiac rehabilitation

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

27 participants in 2 patient groups

No intervention
Active Comparator group
Description:
Usual care control group
Treatment:
Behavioral: Usual care
Active Comparator
Active Comparator group
Description:
Multi domain rehabilitation intervention
Treatment:
Behavioral: Rehabilitation intervention

Trial contacts and locations

3

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